PROFOUNDNESS

profundity, profoundness

(noun) intellectual depth; penetrating knowledge; keen insight; etc; “the depth of my feeling”; “the profoundness of the silence”

deepness, profundity, profoundness

(noun) the quality of being physically deep; “the profundity of the mine was almost a mile”

astuteness, profundity, profoundness, depth, deepness

(noun) the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas

reconditeness, abstruseness, abstrusity, profoundness, profundity

(noun) wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound; “the anthropologist was impressed by the reconditeness of the native proverbs”

profoundness

(noun) extremeness of degree; “the profoundness of his ignorance”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

profoundness (usually uncountable, plural profoundnesses)

The quality of being profound; profundity

Source: Wiktionary


Pro*found"ness, n.

Definition: The quality or state of being profound; profundity; depth. Hooker.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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27 June 2025

SQUARE

(adjective) having four equal sides and four right angles or forming a right angle; “a square peg in a round hole”; “a square corner”


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Coffee Trivia

The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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